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Multivendor Marketplace For ZohoCommerce

Multivendor Marketplace For ZohoCommerce

Multivendor Marketplace For ZohoCommerce

Introducing Multivendor Marketplace for ZohoCommerce. The application is designed to empower store owners like you. It seamlessly converts your single-admin online store into a dynamic marketplace. You can invite multiple sellers to showcase their products on your e-commerce marketplace.

Our application seamlessly integrates with your existing ZohoCommerce store, ensuring a smooth transition. You can expand your product offerings and attract a wider customer base, driving increased sales. 

 

Key Features of Multivendor Marketplace for ZohoCommerce:

Admin End:

  • Centralized Control: Complete oversight of your marketplace, managing sellers, their products, and orders from a single dashboard.
  • Seller Approval: Carefully curate your marketplace by approving or rejecting seller’s products.
  • Product Synchronization: Effortlessly sync products between your ZohoCommerce store and the marketplace, ensuring consistency and efficiency.
  • Seller Admin Management: Create seller admins. Also, grant and revoke access to seller admins, streamlining their operations.
  • Subscription Management: Offer flexible subscription plans to sellers, providing them with the tools and resources they need to succeed.
  • Transaction Oversight: Monitor and manage transactions, approving or disapproving them as needed.
  • Scalability: Easily accommodate growth by creating new seller accounts based on your subscription plans.

Seller End

  • Separate Control Panel: Provide sellers with a user-friendly interface to manage their products and orders.
  • Order Management: Allow sellers to track and update the status of their orders, ensuring timely fulfilment.
  • Product Listing: Empower sellers to add and customize their products, including variants and high-quality images.
  • Seller Admin Management: Enable sellers to delegate tasks to their admins for efficient operations.
  • Order Status: Give sellers the ability to mark orders as fulfilled once they’ve been shipped.

 

Prerequisite

Ensure you have an existing ZohoCommerce account to use Multivendor Marketplace for ZohoCommerce. Then only your application integrates with your ZohoCommerce account.

 

How to Setup Seller Admin on Multivendor Marketplace for ZohoCommerce?

Before jumping into the setup process of the multivendor marketplace for ZohoCommerce ensure you already have an existing ZohoCommerce account. If you don’t have an existing account make a new account on ZohoCommerce. And, if you have an account sign up for the multivendor marketplace for ZohoCommerce. 

To create an account click here. Scroll down and click on the ‘Get This App’ button. 

multivendor marketplace for zohocommerce

Here on the signup page fill in your details and sign up for a new account.

Now, on this page sign up for the application.

You can easily connect your ZohoCommerce account to the multivendor marketplace account by filling up these details. Let’s see how to find those details below:

  1. To find the Organization ID, go to your ZohoCommerce account > Click on Settings 

multivendor marketplace for zohocommerce

Under Store Settings, click on the Organization Profile.

zohocommerce dashboard

Open the organization Profile, copy the Organization ID from here and paste it into the Multivendor Marketplace for ZohoCommerce.

  1. Enter your Store name.
  2. Simply put your Store URL in the ZohoCommerce Store URL.
  3. To enter the API URL, click the ZohoCommerce API URL link.  Here you will find all the data centres’ URLs, 

zohocommerce api url

After filling in all these details you can click on connect button. Now your ZohoCommerce account to our application.

A popup will open a new window in which you have to sign in again to your ZohoCommerce account.

Accept the permission on the next popup window.

Now we have completed the setup of seller admin on the multivendor marketplace for ZohoCommerce. 

Click on Choose a plan for the seller admin.

admin dashboard

Click on the next step to continue. You will get the seller admin plan. 

admin dashboard

 

How Can Admin Create Seller Plans?

You have completed the setup process of the seller admin. Your ZohoCommerce platform has become a multivendor marketplace now you can create seller plans, and manage products and orders directly from your seller admin on your platform. 

To create seller plans go to Seller Plans.

Click on the Add button, here you can create new seller plans.

multivendor marketplace for zohocommerce

Under the ‘General Tab’, you can customize your plan. Create plan name, status, price and validity. After this, shift to ‘Condition Tab’.

multivendor marketplace for zohocommerce

Under the Condition Tab, set the maximum product under the plan, commission and commission percentage. Click on the Create button below to successfully launch your new plan.

Now, Go to setup instructions.

You will find the seller’s registration and login links here. With the help of these two links, you can invite multiple sellers to your online platform.

 

Seller Account Registration and Activation

When the plans are successfully created you can send the registration invite link to the sellers. A seller can register himself through the invite link by filling up all the necessary details.

After registering himself on the platform, a seller has to wait until the admin approves his registration request. 

To approve the registration request and activate the seller account here are the following steps.

Go to the admin dashboard and click on ‘Seller Companies’

Here you will see the registration request sent by the seller. You can disable and activate a seller ID from here. This gives you complete control over the sellers.

Now send the Seller Login URL to the seller. So that the seller can access his eCommerce dashboard.

On this page, the seller has to fill up his login details, then only he can access his eCommerce dashboard. Here he can manage his products and orders.

 

Add Product on Multivendor Marketplace for ZohoCommerce

Adding a product to Zohocommerce is a piece of cake on our application. To add a product the seller has to go to its seller dashboard and click on the product.

You can add a new product page from here. Click on the add button to add a new product.

You can see different tabs like image, price and variant in the above section. Here you can set the price in the ‘price tab’, an image in the ‘image tab’ and if you have a product variant you can simply add it in the ‘variant tab’.


If you have a product variant you can click on the variant tab to add new variants for your product and set the prices according to the product variant. Click save to add your products.

You can see you have successfully added your product.

You can also check if your product has been added to your ZohoCommerce platform. To check login to your ZohoCommerce account and under the Product section.

multivendor marketplace for zohocommerce

Click on the product and scroll down to check if the variant of the product has been added. You can see the product and product variant information is successfully added to your ZohoCommerce account.

 

Workflow of Multivendor Marketplace for ZohoCommerce

Our application provides a smooth functioning and real-time data transfer. This ensures that the order details and the order status are in sync with both the admin account and the seller account. 

Let’s understand an order process. Go to the store website and select a product to ‘Add to Cart’.

multivendor marketplace for zohocommerce

Go to the checkout page and click on the checkout button.

multivendor marketplace for zohocommerce

Add your shipping details and click on the continue button.

zohocommerce checkout page

Select your shipping method and continue.

Select your payment option and click on your make payment button.

After filling in your card details, pay your order.

Now, you will redirected to a window. Here order ID will be shown.

A seller can check a new order on his seller dashboard by clicking on the order section.

Here the seller can find the new order and check the order ID. For further details click on the order ID number.

 

You can see more details about the order and it also gives additional functionality to the seller to change the order status and write an order note.

Our application enables you to see the information in real time. It means whenever Order information is updated on the seller’s part, the admin can see it in real-time on his dashboard.

This will ensure a proper information exchange between the seller and the admin dashboard.

Now, you can notice in the above image that there is no change in the order status and shipping status on the admin account. To update the status you have to open your ZohoCommerce account and under the order section. Select your order number to update its order and shipping status.

Confirm the order status and shipping status on your ZohoCommerce.

Go to the Admin account check your order status and you will find the updated order status.

multivendor marketplace for zohocommerce

Same for your seller account, You will also find the updated order status.

multivendor marketplace for zohocommerce

 

Support

  1. For any further queries or customizations, click on Create a Ticket.
  2. To know more about the product, Request a demo.

 

 

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